Guides for Musicals, Plays, Operas & Operettas

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have the intriguing, thrilling, riotous and unmissable comedy. The show hurtles a notorious fugitive and a spellbound blonde from a London music hall north by northwest to Scotland’s most remote highlands. Will...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois is the story of the life of this great American president, before he actually becomes president. At a young age, Abraham Lincoln learns of the problems of sectionalism in the United States, and has a great desire to end it. Despite his bright mind and passion, Lincoln ru...
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Successful playwright Stephen Gaye is stuck – he can’t seem to finish the play he is working on, about a man in his sixties who falls for a much younger woman. When his frumpy, shy young secretary suddenly declares her love for him, he finds inspiration and completes the work. In the second act,...
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Successful playwright Stephen Gaye is stuck “ he can't seem to finish the play he is working on, about a man in his sixties who falls for a much younger woman. When his frumpy, shy, young secretary suddenly declares her love for him, he finds inspiration and completes the work. In the second ac...
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The Acharnians is a hilarious satire and an indictment of unnecessary war. The play follows the attempts of the hero Dicaeopolis to make a personal peace with the Spartans even though his native city of Athens is fighting in the Peloponnesian War. After side-stepping informers, the Athenian Assem...
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Beckett's short play takes place in a desert illuminated by a "dazzling light". The cast consists of just one man, who is thrown on stage at the start of the play and is thrown back each time he attempts to exit. The main action is of the man trying to reach a small carafe of water, which is alw...
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This comic, expressionistic masterpiece follows the exploits of Mr. Zero, a hard-working, psuedo-Everyman as he toils through his rather inconsequential existence working at a Macy's-like department store. When he discoveres that after 25 years of determined dedication on his job, he will be fir...
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When a British aristocrat , his family, and the butler are stranded on a deserted island, Crichton is the only one of the party with any basic survival knowledge. In the party’s new-found predicament, Crichton assumes the position of leader. The others at first refuse to accept this state of aff...
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When a British aristocrat , his family, and the butler are stranded on a deserted island, Crichton is the only one of the party with any basic survival knowledge. In the party's newfound predicament, Chrichton assumes the position of leader. The others at first refuse to accept this state of af...
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Emma Joseph, a bright, hard-working, recent law school graduate descended from a long line of Marxists, is continuing her family’s business of fighting for progressive ideals. She founded the Joe Joseph Fund four years ago, named for her grandfather who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for...
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